For Lo, I am Woe: Phone Edition

My phone has gone all flaky on me.  It can't seem to maintain a cell and data connection.  It is fine on wi-fi.  This does not work for playing Pokemon Go.  In the process of attempting to troubleshoot, I attempted to do a factory reset.  Seriously, the less said about that, the better.  Turns out, Google back-up kinda doesn't, very much.  So, I lost all my Neko Atsume cats, and a whole host of other items.  Of possible interest to you, evidently at some point I was saving my contacts to my phone rather than to Google, and so I lost all that, too.  If you think I should have your phone number, I probably don't, anymore.  If you want me to have it, you could email it to me at lydy at demesne dot com.  Or, you know, call me.  Phone number remains the same.  

After the failed factory reset (we're not talking about that, remember?) I also had Ting (who have been uniformly wonderful) send me a new sim card.  I installed it last night and, nope, didn't help a bit. So, in a spasm of frustration, I bought a new phone.  

Said phone should arrive Thursday or Friday.  My new Macintosh Air is also due to arrive Friday.  So I predict Friday shall be  Tech Tears day.  (Technology makes me cry, a lot.)

And lo, I am woe.